The mayor of Portland was forced to confess to having a homosexual affair, with a boy who may have been underage at the time, and to suborning perjury from the young man. Nowhere in the Oregonian story is the mayor's party affiliation mentioned. That must mean that he's a...........

Portland Mayor Sam Adams acknowledged Monday that he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old in summer 2005 and, on the eve of his campaign for the city's highest office, lied about it and urged the young man to lie as well.

Adams said he made a mistake in not admitting the relationship when reporters first asked about it in September 2007. He did not describe the relationship itself as a mistake.

"I should have been honest about what happened, but I was not," he told The Oregonian from Washington, D.C., where he is attending a national mayor's conference and the presidential inauguration. "I apologize."

Adams met Beau Breedlove in April 2005. Breedlove, then 17, was an intern for then-Rep. Kim Thatcher, R-Keizer, at the Oregon Legislature. Adams, 42 and a city commissioner, was in Salem on a lobbying trip. They struck up a conversation, and soon after, Breedlove called Adams hoping for both professional and personal advice on coming out of the closet in the political world.

Breedlove had lunch with Adams and visited his City Hall office, and the pair went out for dinner alone at the Lotus Cardroom & Cafe. In a joking, locker-room manner, aides warned Adams that Breedlove was interested in him romantically. (Even after Breedlove had faded into memory, aides still told Adams to make sure his dates were "older than Beau.")

This kind of thing appears to be quite common in the Beaver State.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he's known Fred Leonhardt for more than 20 years, gone to baseball games with him, and taken walks together. But he insists Leonhardt never told him that former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt had sexually abused a teenager while Goldschmidt was Portland mayor.

"We had a good working relationship," Kulongoski said of Leonhardt.

But in an affidavit filed with state investigators, Kulongoski repeated that he did not learn about Goldschmidt's abuse of the teenage girl until it became public in 2004, contradicting Leonhardt's claims he had told Kulongoski about it years earlier.

"The evening before the story broke in the media, my chief of staff called to inform me that a friend of his had called him to say that tomorrow's newspaper would have a story about Gov. Goldschmidt's sexual relationship with a minor female," Kulongoski says in the affidavit, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

Leonhardt's claims have received renewed attention in recent weeks as the state Department of Public Safety Standards and Training wrapped up a five-month investigation into whether Multnomah County Sheriff Bernie Giusto knew about the abuse before 2004.

A draft report by the police standards agency released Monday said Giusto has admitted he told Leonhardt about the abuse.

Giusto has said he cannot comment on the police standards agency's investigation of his conduct while it is still pending. He has scheduled a news conference for 10 a.m. Thursday but no details were provided by the sheriff's office.

Including, no mention of the governor's party affiliation. Maybe the mainstream media just take it for granted that such behavior is the domain of Democrats.

Update: Much more here, but still no mention of party affiliation.